Jayne Houdyshell's Broadway Buzz

Something funny’s going on…on the big screen! The film adaptation of Lucky Stiff, the 1988 musical collaboration from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, is heading to Canada. The film will play the Montreal World Film Festival this summer, which runs from August 21 through September, and as previously announced, is scheduled for a release in 2015. The flick stars Tony ...

Carnegie Hall’s upcoming one-night-only production of Guys and Dolls has found its Do-gooders, Hot Box Girls and Crapshooters! Christopher Fitzgerald, Jayne Houdyshell and more are set to join the previously announced Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Sierra Boggess and Megan Mullally for the performance. Directed by Jack O’Brien, the musical will be staged with a complete orchestra, cast and ensemble ...

Maybe Romeo and Juliet would have worked out if they'd just gone to the movies together? Just a little bit of dating advice. And now here's some entertainment advice: This winter, Screenvision and newly formed company BroadwayHD will bring director David Leveaux's Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to movie theatres nationwide. Starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad, the ...

Parting really is such sweet sorrow! For never was a story of more woe than to know that William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom and two-time Tony nominee Condola Rashad, will end its Broadway run on December 8. The contemporary revival, directed by five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux, will have played 27 previews and 93 regular performances at ...

Back in 2003, nobody dreamed that Wicked—the fantastical untold story of Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (the Good Witch of the North)—would become one of Broadway's biggest blockbusters for 10 years...and counting! On October 30, the musical Broadway.com fans voted all-time best marked its first decade on Broadway with a gala performance ...

Audiences are in for a night of romance and rivalry when they head to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to see the new Main Stem mounting of Romeo and Juliet. Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad crank up the sexual and dramatic tension as the starry-eyed and star-crossed lovers in David Leveaux's contemporary revival of William Shakespeare's classic, which also stars Brent ...

In fair Verona New York City, where we lay our scene, the contemporary revival of Romeo and Juliet has landed on Broadway, and we’ve got a first look at this exciting production, photographed by Carol Rosegg. Directed by five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux, this Main Stem mounting of Shakespeare's tragedy tells the story of two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose families ...

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Since receiving her first Tony nomination for her Broadway debut as a demanding mother in 2003’s Well, Jayne Houdyshell has played some outlandish characters on the Great White Way. She lorded over Shiz University as Wicked’s Madame Morrible, drew laughs as the meddling Mae Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie and delivered her best “Broadway Baby” as ...

What light through yonder window breaks? It's Romeo and Juliet! The new contemporary revival of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, starring Orlando Bloom and two-time Tony nominee Condola Rashad, begins preview performances on August 24 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Directed by five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux, Romeo and Juliet opens on September 19.